Jail’s rough for hook-handed Al Queda suspect: lawyers

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Radical Muslim cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza Al Masri, shown here in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2002, wants be housed at a special prison while he awaits trial on terrorism charges in New York federal court.

This hardline jihadist is pretty soft.

Hook-handed Islamic preacher Abu Hamza Al Masri, an accused Al Qaeda terrorist who once incredibly requested a bidet in his Manhattan lockup, whined to a New York federal judge Monday that the jail wasn’t up to snuff.

The cleric, who claims that he lost both of his hands fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan and who has only one eye, is demanding that he be moved to a special prison in Devens, Mass., that houses inmates with long-term medical problems.

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Can anyone really blame the hook-handed Hamza for requesting a bidet in his Manhattan jail?

Abu Hamza, 55, born Mostafa Kamel Mostafa in Egypt, had his lawyers tell a federal judge that the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan just didn’t cut it.

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It took eight years before the U.S. was able too extradite Abu Hamza Al Masri, second left, from the U.K.

The U.S. spent eight years trying to extradite Abu Hamza from the U.K. while the radical hate-monger attempted to block the move on health grounds, arguing that U.S. prison conditions would be inhumane.

The feds finally got their hands on him last year.

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The Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York is no hotel, a federal judge reminded Abu Hamza Al Masri.

Abu Hamza was slapped in 2004 with an 11-count indictment that accuses him of supporting the Taliban with money and soldiers, aiding in the 1998 attack that left four kidnapped hostages dead and plotting to set up an Al Qaeda training camp in Oregon.

The man nicknamed “Doctor Hook” by the British press has kept up his complaints here, at one point even requesting a handicapped-accessible toilet due to problems with his prosthetic limbs.